Treatment of male infertility

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1154, Issue , 2014, Pages 385-405

  Palermo, Gianpiero D ^a   Kocent, Justin ^a   Monahan, Devin ^a   Neri, Queenie V ^a   Rosenwaks, Zev ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Andrology; Assisted fertilization; ICSI; IVF; Male infertility; Spermatogenesis; Surgically retrieved spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; AZOOSPERMIA; DNA METHYLATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPROCAL CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; ANIMAL; FERTILITY; GENETICS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84921436928     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0659-8_18     Document Type: Article

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